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ShareSomeCandy

Sarah — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:30:11 +0000

We came across ShareSomeCandy last week and were impressed by the designers featured on their website.

ShareSomeCandy is a curated collective of inspiring design finds and art. The content is appropriate for all audiences and criteria for inclusion are finds that are universally inspiring, beautiful and thought provoking. Every image is referenced to its found location through a ‘via’ link.

Follow them on Twitter for some sweet tweets.

Blanka

Sarah — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:43:16 +0000

We’ve recently purchased some funky posters from Blanka who sell a collection of limited edition posters and prints across a range including art, design, photography, film and music.

The pieces we’ve purchased are by Accept & Proceed, and are based on statistics around the hours of dark in 2008 and average UK rainfall between 1971-2000. Never did we think something so, well, scientific, could look so appealing!

Hours of dark and is printed in black, with frosted and glow in the dark ink and Rainfall is screenprinted in black and UV gloss.

Find out more about Blanka and check out their range of posters and prints at: http://www.blanka.co.uk/

Digital Abstracts

Sarah — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:05:52 +0000

Digital Abstracts has been alive and well for a number of years, and provides its loyal audience and the design community with a unique blend of content, discussion and creative inspiration.

Benefits of using the site include using the forum to communicate with other creatives, graphics tutorials to assist with tricky problems or learn new tricks, as well as links to influential websites.

For the more experienced among you, DA offers interviews with the very best designers, daily design news and even job opportunities. This mix of features ensures that the community benefits everyone from the student to the design start-up through to the multi-disciplinary agency.

My favourite interview was with Rob Chiu of The Ronin. Rob has worked for clients such as Leica, Nokia, BBC, EMI, Greenpeace & Channel 4, and is currently represented by New York based Curious Pictures.

Positive news during interesting times

Sarah — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:45:28 +0000

Georgiana Head Recruitment has started to post regular positive news articles on their website. There’s so much doom and gloom around, that for once, it’s nice to see a company highlighting the positive stories around us. Check out their positive news stories if you’re feeling the blues, during what are sure interesting times!

Creating a fun working environment

Sarah — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:40:22 +0000

We’ve recently moved offices, and in search of new inspiration thought I’d share some of our thoughts and experiences of looking for fun and quirky things to brighten up our space.

Research shows that the happiest and most productive people enjoy being in their work environment, so it makes sense to jazz things up a bit. Whether that’s adding a lick of paint to the wall or introducing something fun and interactive to the office who cares! As long as everyone’s happy, right?

The weird and the wonderful

I first did a bit of research on some seeeeriously cool work spaces, and managed to find a site that did all the hard work for us. It’s called 10 seeeeeriously cool work spaces. Pixar’s offices came top of the list, although Mindlab came a close second. And I was particularly taken with the conference bike!

Gettin’ arty farty

The first place we checked out for wall art (because I’ve been meaning to buy some of their products for a while) was blik. The idea of sticking these fun objects to the wall and moving them around or replacing them to suit your mood is muchos fun.

What we’re planning to do is create our own, similar to these ones created by Joy for Habitat. So not only do you have something fun and funky to show off to clients, you can always say it was created by moi! Now that WOULD be funky!